Georgia began releasing the number of Georgians hospitalized due to coronavirus and the numbers show that 32.9% of patients who tested positive for coronavirus are currently hospitalized.
As of 7 p.m. Tuesday, 1,097 Georgians have tested positive for COVID-19. Of those, 361 are hospitalized and 38 people have died because of the virus.
Georgia’s death rate is 3.46%.
Despite early reports that elderly residents were most at-risk of catching coronavirus, in Georgia 56% of cases have been confirmed in people age 18 to 59. People 60 and over make up 35% of the total number of infected Georgians.
Below is the breakdown of confirmed cases by county.
County | Cases |
---|---|
Fulton | 191 |
Dekalb | 107 |
Dougherty | 101 |
Cobb | 90 |
Bartow | 76 |
Gwinnett | 46 |
Cherokee | 30 |
Carroll | 26 |
Lee | 24 |
Clayton | 21 |
Clarke | 17 |
Hall | 16 |
Henry | 13 |
Douglas | 12 |
Fayette | 12 |
Floyd | 12 |
Lowndes | 11 |
Coweta | 10 |
Richmond | 10 |
Forsyth | 8 |
Gordon | 8 |
Polk | 8 |
Rockdale | 8 |
Chatham | 7 |
Columbia | 6 |
Laurens | 6 |
Newton | 6 |
Paulding | 6 |
Troup | 6 |
Early | 5 |
Glynn | 5 |
Houston | 5 |
Oconee | 5 |
Spalding | 5 |
Bibb | 4 |
Mitchell | 4 |
Muscogee | 4 |
Pickens | 4 |
Sumter | 4 |
Tift | 4 |
Worth | 4 |
Baker | 3 |
Crisp | 3 |
Effingham | 3 |
Lamar | 3 |
Lumpkin | 3 |
Monroe | 3 |
Peach | 3 |
Terrell | 3 |
Baldwin | 2 |
Barrow | 2 |
Bryan | 2 |
Butts | 2 |
Coffee | 2 |
Seminole | 2 |
Stephens | 2 |
Whitfield | 2 |
Ben Hill | 1 |
Burke | 1 |
Camden | 1 |
Catoosa | 1 |
Charlton | 1 |
Chattooga | 1 |
Clinch | 1 |
Colquitt | 1 |
Dawson | 1 |
Fannin | 1 |
Greene | 1 |
Harris | 1 |
Heard | 1 |
Irwin | 1 |
Jasper | 1 |
Liberty | 1 |
Lincoln | 1 |
Macon | 1 |
Madison | 1 |
Meriwether | 1 |
Miller | 1 |
Morgan | 1 |
Pierce | 1 |
Pulaski | 1 |
Randolph | 1 |
Tattnall | 1 |
Telfair | 1 |
Turner | 1 |
Twiggs | 1 |
Walton | 1 |
Washington | 1 |
Unknown | 79 |
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